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...“The sanctions have created a Catch-22 for Iraq,” said Yesar Al-Maleki, Gulf analyst at Middle East Economic Survey....
...While Biden is seeking lower prices at the pump, the Gulf states have been looking for more military support and co-operation from Washington....
...II of Jordan and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt was cancelled....
...Saudi Aramco has agreed to acquire 10 per cent of a Chinese oil refiner for $3.6bn in the second in a pair of deals set to strengthen the relationship between the Middle Eastern state oil company and its...
..., is at risk of being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...Opec secretary-general Haitham al-Ghais from Kuwait argued the group was providing “security” and “stability” for energy markets. “Everything has a price,” he said....
...Need to know: Global economy Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, promised to “supercharge” global climate finance, finalise a $100bn fund to...
...Suhail Al Mazrouei, energy minister of the United Arab Emirates, said Opec+ was cutting to avert a price plunge such as the one that took place in the second half of 2008, when oil collapsed to $30 a barrel...
...Additional reporting by Samer Al-Atrush in Riyadh, Tom Wilson in London and Max Seddon in Riga...
...Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s foreign minister, spoke to US secretary of state Antony Blinken on Wednesday to discuss ways to strengthen co-operation....
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson in London...
...Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador to Washington, said in a statement to the Financial Times: “We favour production increases and will be encouraging Opec to consider higher production levels.”...
...But in recent months there have been signs of a recalibration in Washington’s approach....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...It has also left the world — and much of Washington — in confusion. What does Biden mean by “America is back”? To which America is he referring? The answer is not obvious....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
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...Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia programme at the Wilson Center in Washington, is in no doubt that Beijing’s security concerns have affected investment....
...Guyana was a champion of climate action until Exxon discovered oil. (NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...Riordan is the FT’s South China correspondent based in Hong Kong Liz Cheney Congresswoman, United States House of RepresentativesBY CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN Liz Cheney is unique in Washington today....
...What completes this equation based on Ohm’s law: V = . . .? Who wrote the poem beginning: “Arma virumque cano” (“I sing of arms and the man”)?...
...It is slightly more realistic to hope that Facebook et al will be forced into more equitable revenue sharing with the media. Such platforms are a huge part of the problem....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman , by Ben Hubbard, William Collins, RRP£20, 384 pages Malise Ruthven is the author of ‘L’Arabie des Saoud: Wahhabisme, violence et corruption’ (La fabrique)...
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